Years after baseball was integrated, one of the game’s all-time best players faced racism in the North and South alike.
Author: Jeffrey St. Clair
Jeffrey St. Clair is editor of CounterPunch. His most recent books are An Orgy of Thieves: Neoliberalism and Its Discontents(with Alexander Cockburn), Bernie and the Sandernistas: Field Notes From a Failed Revolution and The Big Heat: Earth on the Brink (with Joshua Frank) He can be reached at: sitka@comcast.net or on Twitter @JeffreyStClair3.